Open Group Test Suite License (OGTSL) - Version 1.0

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The Open Group Test Suite License

Preamble

The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a
Package may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some
semblance of artistic control over the development of the package,
while giving the users of the package the right to use and distribute
the Package in a more-or-less customary fashion, plus the right to make
reasonable modifications.

Testing is essential for proper development and maintenance of
standards-based products.

For buyers: adequate conformance testing leads to reduced
integration costs and protection of investments in
applications, software and people.

For software developers: conformance testing of platforms and
middleware greatly reduces the cost of developing and
maintaining multi-platform application software.

For suppliers: In-depth testing increases customer satisfaction
and keeps development and support costs in check. API
conformance is highly measurable and suppliers who claim it
must be able to substantiate that claim.

As such, since these are benchmark measures of conformance, we
feel the integrity of test tools is of importance. In order to
preserve the integrity of the existing conformance modes of
this test package and to permit recipients of modified versions
of this package to run the original test modes, this license
requires that the original test modes be preserved.

If you find a bug in one of the standards mode test cases,
please let us know so we can feed this back into the original,
and also raise any specification issues with the appropriate
bodies (for example the POSIX committees).

Definitions:

"Package" refers to the collection of files distributed by the
Copyright Holder, and derivatives of that collection of files
created through textual modification.

"Standard Version" refers to such a Package if it has not been
modified, or has been modified in accordance with the wishes
of the Copyright Holder.

"Copyright Holder" is whoever is named in the copyright or
copyrights for the package.

"You" is you, if you're thinking about copying or distributing
this Package.

"Reasonable copying fee" is whatever you can justify on the
basis of media cost, duplication charges, time of people involved,
and so on. (You will not be required to justify it to the
Copyright Holder, but only to the computing community at large
as a market that must bear the fee.)

"Freely Available" means that no fee is charged for the item
itself, though there may be fees involved in handling the item.
It also means that recipients of the item may redistribute it
under the same conditions they received it.

1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the
Standard Version of this Package without restriction, provided that you
duplicate all of the original copyright notices and associated disclaimers.

2. You may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other modifications
derived from the Public Domain or from the Copyright Holder. A Package
modified in such a way shall still be considered the Standard Version.

3. You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any way, provided
that you insert a prominent notice in each changed file stating how and
when you changed that file, and provided that you do at least the
following:

rename any non-standard executables and testcases so the
names do not conflict with standard executables and testcases,
which must also be provided, and provide a separate manual page for
each non-standard executable and testcase that clearly documents
how it differs from the Standard Version.

4. You may distribute the programs of this Package in object code or
executable form, provided that you do at least the following:

accompany any non-standard executables and testcases with their
corresponding Standard Version executables and testcases, giving
the non-standard executables and testcases non-standard names, and
clearly documenting the differences in manual pages (or equivalent),
together with instructions on where to get the Standard Version.

5. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of this
Package. You may charge any fee you choose for support of this Package.
You may not charge a fee for this Package itself. However,
you may distribute this Package in aggregate with other (possibly
commercial) programs as part of a larger (possibly commercial) software
distribution provided that you do not advertise this Package as a
product of your own.

6. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as
output from the programs of this Package do not automatically fall
under the copyright of this Package, but belong to whomever generated
them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated with this
Package.

7.Subroutines supplied by you
and linked into this Package shall not be considered part of
this Package.

8. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or promote
products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

9. THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.